Politics of Algeria

allow or invite soccer into their borders. Countries like Saudi Arabia believe that soccer is practiced as a religion and should be banned because it causes a divide in the Muslim faith. Throughout the Middle East, soccer plays a key factor in their politics as politicians

North African Youth’s Search for Cultural Identity Many young North Africans struggle to find a cultural identity that fits them. There are several reasons that this is issue is so prevalent in North Africa. Many aspects of the foreign involvement that North Africa has been subjected to have impeded the regions ability to forge national identities. The results of this lack of identity have been varied and, while some young North Africans have turned to destructive behaviors, others have made the

“Tell me, is that a nationality, ‘Arab’?” muses Harun, the narrator of Kamel Daoud’s The Meursault Investigation (Daoud 138). Daoud’s novel is full of questions and ramblings such as this one that serve as a response to Albert Camus’ The Stranger, which explores the trial of a French Algerian (Meursault) for killing an Arab man. In The Stranger, Camus fails to name the Arab victim and gives him no backstory nor significant reason for the cause of his murder. In The Meursault Investigation, Daoud

The biography of Abd el- Kader as outlined by Chisholm and Hugh (1911) It was on September 6, 1808 when Abd el-Kader was born in a place near Mascara in Algeria. At the time of his birth, Algeria had been under the Turkish rule. Abd el-Kader is known as the founder of the Algeria state and a religious and military leader who led the Algerians in their struggle against French domination. Even before joining military, Abd el-Kader had gained fame as an educated and religious person, capable of exciting

Algiers by Gillo Pontecorvo is based on certain events that happened during the Algerian War. The war took place in 1954 and lasted until 1962. The Algerian war was a fight between the Algerian people and the French government. Pontecorvo portrays Algeria gaining independence from France, in the film's epilogue. The film take place during 1954 and 1957. In these years is when the guerrilla fighters reformed and then expanded into the Casbah. These fighters were battling French paratroopers who were

Has Political Islam Failed in Algeria?      The question whether Political Islam has failed or not due to the internal structure of the Islamic political movement, in either Algeria or any other country in the Islamic World, is an important question for the analysis of the politicized Islamic phenomena. Olivier Roy sees the movement as a failure, not only in Algeria but also in the whole area from Casablanca to Tashkent, the movement has resulted in failure due to many

differed; although both France and Britain recognized that “…they were no longer world powers in the way that they had been and that they needed to adjust to this situation,” the French were very personally involved with their colonies of Morocco and Algeria which ultimately led to bloody wars, where as the British practiced a more “indirect rule” and indirect involvement in the decolonization process (Chafer, 2002, p. 11). The ways in which the colonial states were shaped had a direct relationship to

everyone, in this case Mussolini. He wanted dictatorship and violence was his way of achieving it. It enforced the ideology of action, it was ready to deal with all the problems by its own policies. Fascism was born from violent struggle and not politics, in this case violence was a good thing to Mussolini and he was all for it. Fascism did not believe in possibility nor utility of peace, any doctrine that promoted peace was contradicting fascist beliefs. It also opposed all doctrines of liberalism

The Battle of the Algiers, follows the story of the Algerian revolt against the French government. The film, focusing mostly on the Arabs’ point of view, portrays an unstable period of time during the French colonialization of Algeria. Throughout the movie, the gender politics shown are greatly troubling to a modern audience, with women being treated like objects during the entire revolt. This also ties to the idea of morality within the film, showing that the terrorists are heartless and uncompassionate

in the global metropoles of the United States and Europe, however, raises questions about the modular qualities of these politics that go largely unaddressed in the article. Through the deployment of this politic, however, the